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| | One China |
 | | Until that point, officials on both sides of the Taiwan Straits had clung to the "One China" policy, the idea that both the People's Republic of China and Taiwan were really one nation, and their deep ideological, political, and economic divisions merely a small diplomatic spat to be settled peacefully by diplomatic means. |
 | | China, determined eventually to absorb what it considers a temporarily renegade province, has maintained its One China ideology consistently, refusing to recognize the possibility (indeed, the actual reality) that Taiwan is a separate nation, with a separate economy, political system, tradition, and even to an extent language and culture. |
 | | But as China grows economically, and more companies decide to risk their contracts in the unpredictable mainland economic system for the potentially tremendous upside, this supposedly communist country is starting to catch up to its island brother's monetary might. |
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